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From Aug. 16-19, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, hosted researchers from its Theta Early Science Program (ESP) for a hands-on workshop to help them port, benchmark, and optimize their applications on the facility’s next-generation Intel-Cray system.

John "Skip" Reddy is the high-performance computing infrastructure team lead at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), which many researchers rely upon to solve some of the world's largest and most complex problems.

On August 4, Susan Coghlan and John “Skip” Reddy of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) were recognized for their outstanding achievements at the 2016 University of Chicago, Argonne, LLC Board of Governors’ awards ceremony.

Large-scale reactive molecular dynamics simulations carried out on the Mira supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, along with experiments conducted by researchers in Argonne’s Energy Systems Division, enabled the design of a “self-healing,” anti-wear coating that dramatically reduces friction and related degradation in engines and moving machinery. Now, the computational work advanced for this purpose is being used to identify the friction-fighting potential of other catalysts.

The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), a two-week “boot camp” introducing a group of 65 participants on how to effectively use the world’s most powerful supercomputers, is set to begin on July 31.

This pioneering program, now in its fourth year, aims to educate the next generation of researchers on all aspects of high-performance computing (HPC), including programming techniques, advanced numerical algorithms, and current and emerging computing architectures.

In a new study, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed a rational approach to optimize the arrangement of defects to enhance the current-carrying capacity of commercial high-temperature superconducting wires. The researchers used a synergistic approach that combined experiments with computer simulations carried out at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) has awarded 26 projects a total of 1.7 billion core-hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The one-year awards began July 1.

The facility’s annual scaling workshop, held May 24-26 at Argonne National Laboratory, welcomed both prospective and current users to the laboratory to work directly with ALCF computational scientists and invited experts on testing, debugging, and improving their codes on Mira, the ALCF’s 10-petaflops IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer.